Gautam Maitra

Where Dream Reveals Gautam Maitra

Pratim, chief protagonist of this novel, used to excogitate issues like human aging and death, since his childhood. Eventually, he went on to become a renowned geneticist. One night, he had a dream in which he saw elderly and senior people, ailing or in good health--in an unknown place that seemed so similar to his own locality--were having their ages reduced to thirty-five. Coincidentally or not, he met an old man, Arthur, near his residence, next morning, who gave him a bottle of youth potion, whose effect would last for five years only. His fifty-year old uncle, Mohit, had fallen a victim of a mysterious disease of aging that made him look like an old man of seventy-five. One day when the doctor gave the final word about his uncle, Pratim, in a dead hurry made the patient drink the entire potion, in Sulata's presence despite latter's deadliest of objections. Thus, opened a Pandora's Box for them. They struggled hard to wriggle out of that dangerous trap. The story unfolds in all its suspense, till the end.